DUSHANBE, March 20, Asia-Plus  -- Eight nine-story residential buildings at the Hofiz Sherozi Street in Dushanbe were put into exploitation yesterday.  

Attending in an official ceremony, President Emomali Rahmon reminded that the residential buildings had been constructed in a year.  He also charged municipal authorities to intensify work on improvement of the city and eliminating shortcomings existing in public services.    

The head of state presented keys of new apartments to eight best builders who had worked on construction of those residential buildings.  

The Dushanbe construction companies Poytakht, Stroitel-K, Ideal-Service and Khonasoz-4 implemented constructed these residential buildings. 

Another six nine-story residential buildings with 48 apartments each are being built in that area.  They are expected to have been finished by the end of this year.  

The same day, the president attended a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of new twelve 12-story residential buildings in Dushanbe’s Zarafshon area, the spokesman said.